pluo
τὸν αὐτὸν ἔρανον ἀποδοῦναι → pay him back in his own coin, repay him in his own coin, pay someone back in their own coin, pay back in someone's own coin, give tit for tat, pay back in kind
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
plŭo: plui (or plūvi in Plaut. and Liv.; cf. Prisc. p. 881 P.; Varr. L. L. 9, § 104 Müll.), 3, v. n., usu.
I impers. (ante-class. and late Lat. also pers.;
v. infra) root plu-, to swim; Gr. πλύνω, to wash; cf.: πλέω, πλεύσω, to sail; cf. ploro, to rain; constr. absol., or with abl. or acc.
I Lit.: pluet credo hercle hodie, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 42: ut multum pluverat, id. Men. prol. 63: has Graeci stellas Hyadas vocitare suerunt, a pluendo: ὕειν enim est pluere, Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 111: aqua, quae pluendo crevisset, by the rain, id. Top. 9, 38: quoties pluit, Juv. 7, 179: urceatim plovebat (vulg. for pluebat), Petr. 44, 18.—With acc.: sanguinem pluisse senatui nuntiatum est, Cic. Div. 2, 27, 58 (Klotz, sanguinem): lapides, Liv. 28, 27, 16: terram, id. 10, 33, 8; Vulg. Exod. 9, 23; 16, 4; id. Psa. 10, 7.—With abl.: lacte pluisse, rained milk, Liv. 27, 11: lapidibus, id. 35, 9; 21, 62, 5: lacte, sanguine, carne, Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—Pass.: quā pluitur et ningitur, App. Flor. p. 340, 39.—Personally: saxis ferunt pluisse caelum, Mart. Cap. 6, § 642: effigies quae pluit, which rained, came down in rain, Plin. 2, 55, 57, § 147. —
II Transf., of other things, to rain (poet.): nec de concussā tantum pluit ilice glandis, Verg. G. 4, 81: stridentia fundae saxa pluunt, Stat. Th. 8, 416: jam bellaria adorea pluebant, id. S. 1, 6, 10.
